If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.